Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

We are looking at our own "chicken and egg". The sport needs more coaches to accommodate the increase in paddlers which we anticipate will turn up once 2012 has kicked off. If we increase coaching levels to slightly above the demand we get over the next two years then we have a buffer to accommodat...

Just a thought; fresh participants to the realm of paddle sport may be harder than converts from other disciplines such as Polo or Playboating. If we want to increase participation might it not be worth converting the already interested before we reach outside the paddle community? They will at lea...

[quote="Nicky"][/quote] As Nicky points out; the quick will be quick and the slow will be slow, no matter what the water level. As a Div 2 paddler I am not going to worry a Div one Ace, we are simply paddling on the same stretch of river. If I find it a bit twitchy well, ok but the higher division w...

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Rutherford never had problems like this. I thought that the golsticks in my firstaid kit were to be ingested in an emergency so that the nice man in the helicopter could see me at night, or when I was hiding in dark places ( like my mind). My latest invention is a cell 'phone. I call it the Raspber...

On Saturday night I had a dream. I had managed to genetically modefy a commonal garden frog. I changed its colour to purple and made it velcro. The only problem is that I can only think of two commercial uses for them, that being to be used as an accoutrement for ladies fluffy pullovers, the other ...